Ye Zi and her two companions' food reserves were shown to the viewers in the live stream more than once. After all, they had to go to the storage room to get meat for every meal they cooked.
They hadn't finished the bear meat to begin with, plus 500 kilograms of moose meat and 24 wolf legs.
The storage room wasn't large, but it wasn't small either. It was less than ten square meters in area, but it had three layers of horizontal bars. The top layer contained moose meat, with smoked strips of meat tightly stacked on the horizontal bars.
In the middle are black bear meat and fish, pheasant and rabbit, all of which are smoked.
At the very bottom are twenty-four wolf legs.
There was also a wooden basin on the ground with thirty or forty eggs. This was thanks to Er Ya and Huang Jingyu, who found them near the camp while Ye Zi was out hunting.
Although these foods are all meat, which survivor camp that is still holding on has such a large supply?
It's true that there are no edible plants, but in the wilderness, you can eat meat every day, so what more could you ask for?
However, the leaves and their companions are not without everything; for example, they lack salt.
The three of them had exhausted the bag that Huang Jingyu had brought.
So Yezi had a new plan: to go to the seaside and boil salt using seawater.
The plan to boil salt was immediately approved. The three of them had been staying in the camp for two days and were feeling a bit bored, so they decided to go out for a walk to clear their heads.
Without further ado, we used the same equipment we had for our previous trip to the beach, but this time we added a tinderbox and an iron pot.
After arriving at the seaside, Huang Jingyu continued fishing, while Ye Zi prepared to boil salt.
First, there's the stove: three stones, about the size of a pot, arranged in a triangle. A fire is lit in the middle, then the pot is placed on top. Water is drawn from the sea using a wooden bucket that was brought along, poured into the pot, and then left to boil until the water evaporates.
After the water evaporates, a layer of white crystals will appear in the pot; this is sea salt.
The sea salt is not edible at this stage. After collecting the crystals, it needs to be processed again at the camp.
The fishing for yellow whales was not very successful. After having lunch by the sea, the three of them only had two fish weighing about a pound each left.
However, they did collect quite a bit of sea salt, a full two pounds, which they put in the wooden bowls they brought.
Seeing that the fishing wasn't going well and they had already collected enough sea salt, the three decided to return to camp, since continuing to fish would basically be a waste of time.
So the three of them packed their things and quickly returned to the camp.
Back at the camp, Ye Zi began grinding sea salt into fine particles, which she then poured into a wooden bucket, added spring water, and stirred until dissolved.
After all the sea salt has completely dissolved, skim off the dirt floating on the surface. The sediment at the bottom should also be discarded, as it contains mud and other substances. Only keep the water from which the salt crystals have dissolved. Then pour the water into a pot and boil it.
The salt crystals obtained from the second boiling to remove the water are crude salt, which still needs further processing.
The steps are similar to before: grind the salt to crystallize, add water and stir to dissolve, skim off the dirt floating on the surface, discard the sediment at the bottom, and continue boiling the remaining water.
The salt crystals obtained this time will be more transparent than the last time.
Then grind again, add water and stir, and this time filter it.
Since Ye Zi and the other two didn't have a filter, they could only make one using charcoal, fine sand, and a layer of down jacket lining.
The filtered water is basically drinkable, but it's extremely salty. If this water is boiled again, the resulting crystals will be salt.
Salt is edible now, but only in small amounts, and not for too long.
However, the three were not worried about getting sick from the food, because they felt the match wouldn't last that long.
With the sea salt, the salt problem was solved, but Yezi still decided not to let Huangjingyu and Erya eat too much of this sea salt.
His physical condition can withstand the harsh conditions of sea salt, but it's hard to say about his two teammates.
It's better to feel weak due to salt deficiency than to harm your body by consuming too much sea salt.
Moreover, Ye Zi's combat strength is sufficient to ensure the safety of the two of them and to take on most of the camp's work.
There's only one goal: to win.
You can become weak due to a lack of salt, but you shouldn't be forced to quit because you have health problems from eating too much sea salt.
Er Ya and Huang Jingyu understood that everything was for the sake of winning the game, so they didn't reject the idea.
She felt a little embarrassed that when she was physically exhausted later on, most of the tasks at the camp fell on her shoulders.
Ye Zi frankly admitted that the camp is now stable and there is almost nothing to do, so cutting trees and chopping firewood doesn't require much effort.
Actually, there is another solution to the salt problem, but it takes a lot of time, so Yezi didn't choose to do it.
The solution is to follow a moose.
The reason it's a moose and not a bear is because bears hunt sea fish, and sea fish carry salt in their bodies, so when they eat sea fish, they swallow seawater.
In addition, when bears walk in the sea, their fur and paws will also get wet.
After seawater evaporates, sea salt remains, and when bears lick their paws and fur, they are also replenishing their salt levels.
So following the bear won't lead to anything.
Moose are large animals, and the salt they get from some edible plants is far from enough, so they have their own ways of supplementing their salt intake.
People usually choose to lick rocks with high salt content, as these rocks may contain mineral salt or brine.
If the stone has been soaked in brine, it is definitely the best choice for survivors to obtain salt.
Because the salt obtained after boiling and filtering the brine is edible.
If it's mineral salt, in the absence of filtration tools, it's better to boil seawater to make salt.
The most time-consuming part of this method is that, first, you have to find a moose and follow it.
Then you need to lick each stone that the moose licked to find out which stone is salty.
Finally, dig a hole where you find the stone to look for brine, or lick all the nearby stones to find the mineral salt rock.
These crushed salt rocks or brine were transported back to the camp, and the process of boiling seawater to extract salt was repeated until finally table salt was obtained.
The whole process was time-consuming and laborious, and it also required licking the rocks that the moose had licked. Although they were surviving in the wilderness, licking the same rocks as the moose and following the moose's lead was beyond Ye Zi's acceptable range.
Therefore, Ye Zi chose to boil salt in seawater.
Boiling seawater to make salt is time-saving and labor-saving. Although it requires boiling several times to remove impurities, they basically have nothing to do now. Besides practicing martial arts, they either sit and chat or cook and eat.
Comparing the two, boiling seawater for salt is more cost-effective.
After receiving its salt replenishment, the yellow whale raised another question, looking rather sullen:
"Fishing is getting harder and harder. I'm afraid we'll have to rely on moose meat for our main food source in the coming days, and only occasionally, when we're lucky enough to hunt a few pheasants or rabbits."
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